Legal Opinion

Jennings v. William W. Wright & Co.

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided July 15, 1875PublishedCited by 23 opinions

Administrators and executors. Pleadings. Abatement. Presumptions. Judgments. Amendments. Before Judge Hopkins. Fulton Superior Court. April Term, 1875. Reported in the opinion.

1Opinion of the Court

Beeckley, Judge.

An action of complaint, in the short form authorized by the Code, was brought in 1869, by William W. Wright & Company against William Jennings, administrator of C. T. O’Keefe. The declaration did not expressly allege that the defendant, was indebted as administrator, but the cause of action set forth was a joint promissory note payable to the plaintiffs, and signed “O’Keefe & Wilson,” a copy of the note being annexed to the declaration. It was not averred who O’Keefe & Wilson were, or what was the relation between them, or what was the given name of either, or where Wilson…

2Cited by23 opinions

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  5. Bank of Oglethorpe v. BrooksCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1924

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